Aaron Schein
@aaronschein.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science at UChicago
Topics: data-intensive social science, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, probabilistic ML
Proud “golden retriever” 🦮
Topics: data-intensive social science, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, probabilistic ML
Proud “golden retriever” 🦮
Southwest Airlines appears to have rewritten the synopses of its inflight entertainment using AI. The Chinese vice-premier isn’t even a character in this movie!
July 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Southwest Airlines appears to have rewritten the synopses of its inflight entertainment using AI. The Chinese vice-premier isn’t even a character in this movie!
Before gesturing to the good ol' days when industry didn't suck up our greatest minds, consider this article I just came across in a 1929 issue of JASA which found that 70% of statisticians had "no other [scientific] affiliation [...] possibly because of [their interest] in business enterprises".
June 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Before gesturing to the good ol' days when industry didn't suck up our greatest minds, consider this article I just came across in a 1929 issue of JASA which found that 70% of statisticians had "no other [scientific] affiliation [...] possibly because of [their interest] in business enterprises".
Happy holidays to all who celebrate “NeurIPS Update Your Timezone”
December 2, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Happy holidays to all who celebrate “NeurIPS Update Your Timezone”
We also take credit for America btw, so you’re welcome for that
November 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
We also take credit for America btw, so you’re welcome for that
This is the classic picture (from Kevin Murphy's book) of P(q || p) vs P(p ||q) VI; neither is MLE
November 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM
This is the classic picture (from Kevin Murphy's book) of P(q || p) vs P(p ||q) VI; neither is MLE
